Simple Star Trek Cookies

Confession time. As much as love Star Trek I am not a true “Trekkie”. That title actually belongs to my brother. By the time he was in the fourth grade he faithfully read his Star Trek encyclopedia, spoke a bit of Klingon, and played with various USS Enterprise models that he lovingly glued together piece by piece. Thanks to a family rule that we take turns picking movies {I come from a time where people usually only had one TV and VCR} over time I grew to love Star Trek myself. That doesn’t make me an expert though, so all you die hards go easy on me. I am just a wannabe.

Anywho, I’m sure y’all already know, Friday is a big day. I’m so excited I had to make cookies. I went simple of course, because that’s my way.

I used these four cutters to make every cookie in my Star Trek collection. You can try them all or just pick a fave. Try Ebay if you don’t have the Wilton boy cutter. It’s discontinued but its easy to find if you look around.

To make the Starfleet Insignia cookie I simply trimmed a star cutter. I know it’s not exact but it’s cute, simple, and gets the point across, which is kind of my personal mantra.

To make these cookies you will need:

Yellow-ish piping and flood icing {I used leftovers but for a similar color mix warm brown and egg yellow}

Black piping icing

Gold color mist or gold airbrush sheen

Begin by outlining and filling the cookies.

Let them dry a bit then lightly mist with gold sheen.

Before moving on to the next step the cookies must be completely dry. I used the extra time to make a stencil. To do this simply Google “Starfleet Insignia”, click on images, find one you like and resize it to fit the cutter you choose. Next, print the image, place under a blank sheet of stencil paper, and cut out with an Exacto or heated stencil knife.

When the cookies are dry stencil the design onto the cookie. For more in depth instructions on stenciling, check out THIS POST.

Finish up by piping a black border around the insignia using a #2 tip.

Simplify things even further and skip the trimming.

You can also use a candy corn cutter and cut a little notch out of the bottom. Technically, this is actually a surfboard cutter from Little Fox Factory, but you get the idea. PS-If disco dust scares you, skip it.

I also added a few uniform cookies for fun. Those of you who noticed that I stenciled the uniform insignia on backwards {before I pointed it out} get ten Trekkie points.

Anywho, come Saturday you’ll find me parked right in the center of the movie theater. I hope I don’t cry. No, I’m not kidding.

For those of you non-Star Trek fans, here are a couple of my favorite Star Trek facts.

In the hallways of the Enterprise there are tubes marked “GNDN”, these initials stand for “goes nowhere does nothing”. I’m pretty sure one of those engineers came back in time and built my house.

On at least two episodes of Star Trek the exterior Mayberry set from “The Andy Griffith Show” was used. If you pay attention you can spot the courthouse, Floyd’s barbershop, Emmett’s repair shop, and the grocery store.

Uniform color designates what division of the ship each member was assigned to. In the original series gold signified Command, including Navigation and Weaponry, red Operations {Engineering, Security, and Services}, and blue Sciences. In the Next Generation Operations and Command switch colors while Sciences remain blue.

In the original series crew members wearing red shirts were more likely to die than the other colors.

Vulcans have green blood while Klingons bleed pink.

The Vulcan Salute was invented by Leonard Nimoy. It is based on the Priestly Blessing performed by Jewish Kohanim which Nimoy witnessed as a child.

The first on-screen interracial kiss was between William Shatner {Captian Kirk} and Nichelle Nichols {Lieutenant Nyota Uhura} in 1968.

When Zachary Quinto played Spock he had to glue his fingers together to do the Vulcan Salute.

I can’t do the Vulcan salute because I am double jointed, but my son sure can and it makes me proud!

Since the on-set turbolift doors in the original series were opened by stagehands using a ropes and pulleys, it was not at all uncommon for poor unsuspecting actors to run face first into a door that didn’t open.

These are outta this world and warp speed on the cuteness scale! I grew up watching the “original” Star Trek and had the biggest crush on Captain Kirk. haha. Live long and prosper! 🙂

Love this post! These are so stellar! I watched all the old movies but really got into Star Trek when The New Generation came around. I thought it was so cool when LeVar Burton did a behind-the-scenes special of Star Trek on Reading Rainbow. (PS- Thanks for linking up my Valentine cookies!)

Oh my gosh and you even made all the crew members!

“Qapla” Your cookies are totally awesome of course. We had tickets to the preview last Wednesday and I had to give mine up for Kindi Mother’s day night. Mr Sweet went without me, don’t tell anyone but he has a real working full size STNG pinball machine, although he can’t actually speak Klingon 🙂

I’m not a Trekkie but if I ever have a request for Star Trek cookies I know that I will be visiting your blog. You are so generous with your creativity and break down the designs so that hobby cookie decorators like myself are able to create some pretty impressive cookies. Thanks!

So nerdy, so adorable! Great idea to stencil on the insignia. It looks perfect! On the shopping list for next Michael’s trip: exacto knife and stencil paper!

I’m not a Trekkie (not even a wannabe) but I certainly am a Sugar Belle fan! I love how your cookies are simplified and yet still awesome. The Star Trek character cookies are adorable and such a good idea to just make eyes on the faces! Perfect Callye!

Love it! Sharing on my FB wall at Swish! 😉

I guess you can consider me a “wanna be as well” sniff, sniff. I know not a single bit of klingon. But I do love me some Star Trek…I was a bit late to jump on the band wagon too. The cookies a re great an I am so happy you shared the little stencil technique you did. I was staring intently at it wondering how you got such perfect detail and then read through the rest of the post where you explained …ha ha. Awesome job!